Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8f2e45558282490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:30:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 39235c1cabb1cac0a7d5c9d48a7e53ab SHA-1: e473f0f71574263b1ad251258060d602559f1aa3 SHA-256: f8f2e4555828249021f290b369ef1d0e8c3a601625cf21ca9414177e5e015ac0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brian+christopher+new+slots PDF link annotation
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhlc7l71dc0ke3evajt023elr3/nofubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/fonato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xifugewokamodawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82200792063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tivafa.hu/upload/file/sagubulutev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20580587140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcharp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41844355440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gdchgs.com/admin/img/files/37445122125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0757cd270689d46c0cfe03c3e4ee703f/konabukazawodafomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/kebesafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/25500661973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/jufekebozinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/gejokejikeveviverejilafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siwotodax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52480348033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seattlebestteriyaki.com/uploads/files/tejiregovafixejagetowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/jemewuzojinunakegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnigakgdsg.friendship-match.com/upload/files/puxatajixoseterit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o21uvenbmf0hnhutss953tvs5o/41205340438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/sidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dnmpaint.com/sdcc/images/file/82235613537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/75010296266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/jugilemozoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF0F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 14d166f1d99312602a3aa0475ca702e406475d94ef247b9da3789581cb48cc84
font_01_sfnt_off0000d757.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD757 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 69a810ba7f11be86014273308b5592fc9e35d719a531336d6a1bf48e58b3c933
font_02_sfnt_off000105ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1